“(Stanton) is known around Pixar for repeating the phrases ‘fail early and fail fast’ and ‘be wrong as fast as you can.’ He thinks of failure like learning to ride a bike it isn’t conceivable that you would learn to do this without making mistakes-without toppling over a few times.And that’s as it should be.”Īwesome ideas from Andrew Stanton, director and producer at Pixar It’ll be pretty when we get there, but it won’t be pretty along the way. “Don’t wait for things to be perfect before you share them with others.It is the manager’s job to make it safe to take them.” “It is not the manager’s job to prevent risks.“There is nothing quite as effective, when it comes to shutting down alternative viewpoints, as being convinced you are right.”.“Unleashing creativity requires that we loosen the controls, accept risk, trust our colleagues, work to clear the path for them, and pay attention to anything that creates fear.”.“Better to have train wrecks with miniature trains than with real ones.” -Joe Ranft.“To be wrong as fast as you can is to sign up for aggressive, rapid learning.”.“You are not your idea, and if you identify too closely with your ideas, you will take offense when they are challenged.”.“To be a truly creative company, you must start things that might fail.”.What they will be capable of tomorrow is more important than what they can do today.” “When looking to hire people, give their potential to grow more weight than their current skill level.

“What is the point of hiring smart people, we asked, if you don’t empower them to fix what’s broken?”.“I look for ways to institutionalize (candor) by putting mechanisms in place that explicitly say it is valuable…Put smart, passionate people in a room together, charge them with identifying and solving problems, and encourage them to be candid with one another.”.“We realized that our purpose was not merely to build a studio that made hit films but to foster a creative culture that would continually ask questions.”.“Trust doesn’t mean that you trust that someone won’t screw up-it means you trust them even when they do screw up.”.Finally, we try to identify those impediments and fix them.” We accept that, without meaning to, our company is stifling that talent in myriad unseen ways. “We start from the presumption that our people are talented and want to contribute.

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